The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Betancourt Lopez understood the value of viral marketing, especially for a key demographic — young people. In 2020, the company launched a new line of sunglasses that’s environmentally focused.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Betancourt Lopez understood the value of viral marketing, especially for a key demographic — young people. In 2020, the company launched a new line of sunglasses that’s environmentally focused.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

I inquired about why the building was so “hidden,” as this was surprising to me, but the answer made sense: A few months prior, a Facebook user in Europe had flown to Dublin, arrived at the office, and demanded that he be given access to his ex-girlfriend’s account because she had cut him off after the two broke up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

21:16) Moving drug compounds from Europe to the US after the flight embargo and what the data showed. (22:57) 51:36) Scientific background on niclosamide, what we know about how it works to stop viral replication. (52:48) 2:16) Nadja Mannowetz on her background. (2:38) 8:05) Discussion about niclosamide and safety. (10:58)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In mid-March, as the coronavirus was sweeping through Asia and Europe, Tomas Pueyo published a piece on Medium titled "The Hammer and the Dance: What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like if Leaders Buy Us Time." That's a very, very strong call to action to put at the end of an article, and I knew that would dramatically increase the virality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. His lab specializes in accelerating the discovery of new drug compounds and treatments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. At the time, virology was not thought to be very interesting because we didn't have good ways to diagnose specific viral infections except antibody responses.

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